Jason Snead, Executive Director of Honest Elections Project Action
“The bill New Mexico Democrats are ramming through the state legislature in the waning hours of the session risks crippling public confidence in state elections. This behemoth of bad ideas includes letting felons vote prior to completion of their sentences and establishes permanent absentee lists but includes no mechanism for adequately keeping the state’s voter rolls up to date. This entire process has been purposely opaque, leaving the public in the dark about the rules of its own democracy. And due to the hurried nature of the process and total lack of transparency, we are still waiting to find out if the Democrats will try to smuggle even more bad policies, like error-prone automatic voter registration or a lower voting age, back into this package. To say that this bill is a travesty is an understatement.”
